Shell have done almost nothing to ease oil pollution in the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta, three years after a landmark UN report called for a $1 billion dollar clean-up.
This is part of the report released by Amnesty International on Monday.
A United Nations report in 2011 had accused the Government and oil major, Shell of profiting from decades of crude production which have left the people with nothing but land too polluted for farming or fishing.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report had recommended a major clean up of the area and called on the oil industry and Nigerian Government to contribute $1 billion.
According to Audrey Gaughran of Amnesty International, Shell has so far escaped the necessity to clean up the damage it has caused.
Amnesty International says although Shell staff returned to Ogoniland in April of 2013, for the first time in two decades to study how best to decommission their decaying assets in the region, a move the company described as a key step in complying with the UNEP report, there was no evidence that the company was serious about actually cleaning up the area.
Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer, pumping out roughly two million barrels per day.
